A37046:1021
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. Care and inspection would be taken so far as men can reach, that by none in the Society, neither secret nor private duties be neglected, nor public duties abstained from, but that each may stir up one another, and more especially those whose places lead them to it, to the suitable sanctification of the day in all the duties of it, and withal, it would be looked to, that none of the family be suffered to stay at home unnecessarily from the public worship or to be absent from the family worship.
6. Care and inspection would be taken so far as men can reach, that by none in the Society, neither secret nor private duties be neglected, nor publick duties abstained from, but that each may stir up one another, and more especially those whose places lead them to it, to the sutable sanctification of the day in all the duties of it, and withal, it would be looked to, that none of the family be suffered to stay at home unnecessarily from the publick worship or to be absent from the family worship.
7. Timely (that ye be not by haste discomposed) come to public-modestly apparelled (it's a shame to see how gaudily some come to public worship on the Lords day) grave in your walk wary and circumspect in you words, that they be spiritually edifying and suitable; watch over your eyes, that carnal or worldly looks steal you not away, nor distemper your hearts; but especially over your hearts, that they we are not out of a spiritual frame.
7. Timely (that ye be not by haste discomposed) come to publick-modestly apparrelled (it's a shame to see how gaudily some come to publick worship on the Lords day) grave in your walk wary and circumspect in you words, that they be spiritually edifying and sutable; watch over your eyes, that carnal or wordly looks steal you not away, nor distemper your hearts; but especially over your hearts, that they we are not out of a spiritual frame.